UT’s Blundell Claims Second Straight SSC Women’s Runner of the Week Award

WINTER PARK, Fla. - Tampa sophomore Chantalle Blundell has been recognized as the Sunshine State Conference Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week presented by VALIC. This marks the second consecutive week Blundell has earned the award.

Blundell finished fifth overall at the Florida State Invitational on Friday, breaking her career-best time by nearly 30 seconds with a time of 18:20.71 in the 5K event. The Brush Prairie, Wash., native was the first of three Spartans to finish in the top-10. Tampa won the overall team finish with 40 points.

For more than half a century, VALIC has served as the leading retirement plan provider for higher education, as well as for K-12 schools and school districts, healthcare, government and other not-for-profit institutions. VALIC has more than $65 billion in total assists under management and manages plans for nearly 25,000 groups serving nearly two million plan participants. VALIC represents The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company and its subsidiaries, VALIC Financial Advisors, Inc., and VALIC Retirement Services Company.